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I really love my 20th Anniversary Prime and almost picked up the DVD Prime version just for the cartoon-accurate colors. About the only downside to getting the Hasbro versions over the Takara/Tomy ones is the US versions have shorter smokestacks due to toy safety laws. But there is/was a company that sold replacement stacks that you could swap out. I opted to keep mine original.

As for Megs, it's a great figure overall but there are a few issues with him. First, he's easily the most fragile of the MPs and that's due to a lot of his parts are thin plastic connecting to die-cast. So handle him with kid gloves if you get him. Also, some of the Megs had rust spots develop on the die-cast, so check for that too.

Of course, all the other MPs have little issues here and there. Prime and Grimlock are by far the most solid ones I own. But the thing to keep in mind about MPs is that they are not typical Hasbro mass-marketed toys. MPs aren't designed to go twenty rounds with Sid from Toy Story.

Also, you might want to keep an eye out for the new MP Prime (MP-10) as it's a smaller version of him that better fits with the other MPs (the first Prime is over-sized compared to the others) and also with the Classics, I'm told. There's a good possibility we might get him stateside, which is what I'm hoping for since importing is too cost-prohibitive for me right now.